We inherited the English language and other Anglophone roots, but above all, we are Cubans, declares to CMKS Radio Station Jorge Augusto Derrick Henry, the head of the Center for British West Indian Welfare, after 70 years of that institution established in Guantanamo.
We inherited the English language and other Anglophone roots, but above all, we are Cubans, declares to CMKS Radio Station Jorge Augusto Derrick Henry, the head of the Center for British West Indian Welfare, after 70 years of that institution established in Guantanamo.
So strong it is blending of our cultures, he says, in this anniversary we will play the first song of changüí in English, composed by Ramona Moré and performed by Erol Jackson, both members of the association and we will receive Jamaican personalities invited to the party .
Derrick also emphasizes that they aim to create a Band Still, like the famous West Indian group and we expect to play in the program for the public from Wednesday to Sunday, November 8
He stresses that the Non Governmental Organization is composed of more than 150 natural and descendant members, who are original from Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda and nations of the Caribbean area, who entered the country, attracted by employment opportunities in the sugar industry or in the illegal American Naval Base.
The Center, says Derrick, promotes cultural and community activities and the conservation of the ancestors’ houses characterized by hardwood floors, cabinets with glassware, water filters, as well as formal education and good habits rooted in the communities that were settled mainly in the Guantanamo urban district called Loma del Chivo.
Translation: Liubis Balart Martínez